Excellent movie

on 5/17/2012

This is an excellent movie. It has got great casts, everyone did an awesome job on their parts. The plot is very nice and unique, great cinematography. It was really fun and exciting to watch this movie on DVD. Overall, a very good movie with superb performances and great story.
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Product Overview

True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valor set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn (Academy Award® Winner Jeff Bridges), a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Academy Award® Winner Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution.

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Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory in Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' original novel. Sticking more closely to the source material than the 1969 feature adaptation starring Western icon John Wayne, the Coens' TRUE GRIT tells the story from the young girl's perspective, and re-teams the celebrated filmmaking duo with their NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN producing partner Scott Rudin. Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper co-star.

Reviews

Los Angeles Times

"[O]ne of their most broadly entertaining films yet....[The Coen brothers] worked hard, and successfully, at serving the buoyant novel as well as being true to their own black comic brio." 12/22/2010

Wall Street Journal

"Joel Coen and Ethan Coen fill the film with self-conscious good humor -- hey, it's the Coen brothers -- and the charmingly old-fashioned locutions of the Charles Portis novel." 12/24/2010

Chicago Sun-Times

3.5 star out of 4 -- "The casting is always inspired and exact. The cinematography by Roger Deakins reminds us of the glory that was, and can still be, the Western." 12/22/2010

New York Times

"[B]oth musically and visually, TRUE GRIT is a parable about good and evil. Only here, the lines between the two are so blurred as to be indistinguishable, making this a true picture of how the West was won or -- depending on your view -- lost." 12/21/2010

Washington Post

3 stars out of 4 -- "TRUE GRIT has sweep and scope and entertainment value to burn..." 12/22/2010

USA Today

"Joel and Ethan Coen have pulled off an impressive feat: repurposing a classic film with their idiosyncratic blend of dark, deadpan humor and palpable suspense..." 12/22/2010 ,Included in USA Today's "10 Best Films Of 2010" -- "The Coen brothers fire on all cylinders with this remake of the 1969 Western..." 12/31/2010

Technical Info

UPC

00097363532842

Number of Discs

1

Running Time

110 minutes

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Awards

Oscar (2011)

Hailee Steinfeld, Nominee, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role,Jeff Bridges, Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role,Joel?Coen et al., Nominee, Best Achievement in Directing,Joel?Coen et al., Nominee, Best Motion Picture of the Year

Screen Actors Guild (2011)

Hailee Steinfeld, Nominee, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role,Jeff Bridges, Nominee, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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Variety

Review

It's hard to imagine bigger boots to fill than the ones that earned John Wayne his Oscar in "True Grit," and yet Jeff Bridges handily reinvents the iconic role of Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers' back-to-the-book remake. Though the sibs return things to the perspective of vengeance-bent 14-year-old Mattie Ross, all eyes are definitely on Cogburn. Rather than a case of the Dude doing the Duke, Bridges' irascible old cuss is a genuine original who feels larger than the familiar saga that contains him. Awfully gritty for its PG-13 rating, this characteristically well-crafted outing could draw a wide range of audiences, ranking among the Coens' more commercial pics.

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Peter Debruge

ReviewRating

8

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Rolling Stone

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What makes True Grit a new classic for the Coens is the way the brothers absorb the unfairly unsung Portis into their DNA, like they did with Cormac McCarthy in "No Country for Old Men." True Grit is packed with action and laughs, plus a touching coda with an older Mattie, but it's the dialogue that really sings. Great filmmaking. Great acting. Great movie. Saddle up.